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For years and years we rarely think about wrinkles until it is reflected in the mirror and too late to prevent them. The correct obsession with quick action products instant visible results, reveals that prevention has not been part of our culture. Yet prevention is the key to minimizing the signs of aging of the largest organ of our body, the skin.

Although the way in which each age is due in large part to genetic factors, the acceleration of this process also is caused primarily by a few bad habits such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and poor nutrition. Also affect us stress, environmental pollution, excessive exposure to the sun without any protection and the lack of moisturizing most important, at least two liters of pure water daily.

Products for skin care can really help, but since there is a wide variety of brands on the market, we must choose what is appropriate for everyone with great care. When buying, mainly we have to consider the degree of sun protection filter that offers the product (in English SPF of 15 or more), the ingredients it contains and the type of skin you have (dry, oily or mixed). Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike the skin on other parts of the body, the lips are uneven skin, as its thickness increases inside the lip to the edge of it. Furthermore, the skin of the lips has no oil glands, sweat glands or hair follicles that are in the rest of the skin.

Why are so susceptible to the lips dry out and crack?
The dryness of the mouth is usually caused by moisture loss, exacerbated by the effects of wind, cold and low humidity. As the skin of the lips is thinner than the rest of the body’s skin, lips react more quickly under the action of the elements. By applying a moisturizer, such as lip balms, retards moisture loss and subsequent irritation. It also increases the resistance against future irritation. Read the rest of this entry »

Necessary for life, too much sun can be profoundly damaging to long-term health. Emilio Carranza dermatologist interviewed on the most important precautions to take during the hot season.

Why is it dangerous to abuse the sun?
Remain long in the sun without any protection can cause erysipelas and even second-degree burns. But the greatest danger is manifested in the long term: premature aging, appearance of dark spots and the worst: melanoma, malignant skin cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

The use of tissue grafts produced from fetal skin cells quickly allowed to treat severely burned children, according to a study by Swiss doctors published online Thursday by the British medical journal The Lancet.

The eight children were treated to the classic candidate skin autografts of extracting small pieces of healthy skin from one point in the patient’s body to graft in injuries to the skin lining can regenerate. The autograft is applied to deep burns, including third-degree (full thickness of the dermis), which do not allow spontaneous scarring.

The team of Professor Patrick Hohlfeld, University Hospital of Lausanne, is interested in obtaining skin thanks to biotechnologies to improve healing of such burns. Read the rest of this entry »

The ultimate in facial care creams are not the only technology able to calculate how many hours can a sun without burning, to represent wrinkles in a chart or predict the chances of skin cancer.

This technology could come from pearls to those who suspect nothing short of miraculous abilities cosmetics that promise, because with it you can prove scientifically whether they work or not.

Clarity Pro, named the product in question, lets you know what percentage of the facial skin has wrinkles, is affected by exposure to the sun too long or bacteria, resulting in inflamed pores.

Manufactured by a small company in San Jose (Silicon Valley in California) called Brightex, the software provides this information as charts that allow you to quickly view the status of the skin. Read the rest of this entry »

The cleaning removes dirt, bacteria, fat, dead cells, sweat and other impurities from the skin. Unfortunately, cleaning may also dry and irritate the skin, especially sensitive skin. Use a cleaning product that is soft.

The program for the care of your skin should include the following three steps:

1. Cleaning
Twice a day, morning and night, clean your face with a mild cleanser. Gently massage without rubbing your skin. Rinse. Towel dry applying tap lightly.

2. Hydration
While skin is still wet from the rinse, apply a mild lotion or cream to retain moisture.

3. Protection
Do not forget to apply sunscreen daily. In addition to premature aging, the sun can darken the melasma. Adequate protection against damage from the sun is essential for women with melasma should always avoid exposure to sunlight, sunlamps or UV rays and heat, wind or cold. In case you have to be exposed to these items, use a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher every day. Brimmed hats can express their style and at the same time create shade for your face. Be sure to wear sunglasses to protect the delicate eye tissue and prevention of strabismus.

The skin, porous border that delimits the inside from the outside world has on one hand the true function of a protective shell on the other hand, the main organ of communication of all external stimuli received by more subtle and delicate they are. It is the largest organ in the human body with 2 square meters, 4 kilos in weight and 0.2 mm epidermis that protects us from heat, cold, dust, thousands of bacteria that are lurking waiting for the right to enter and all kinds of attacks to which it is subjected daily. It’s definitely a brain surface.

The mirror of the body

It is not easy to maintain healthy skin that is not in fact easy to see properly maintain health. The health of the skin depends on the state of purity that has the blood and it is kept in this state, it is necessary to keep the various bodies healthy and in full operating capacity. Signs of the skin are clear signs of state of the body in its entirety. From the point of view of natural medicine to the skin is considered as a third lung by this reference to the function performed by removal of metabolic waste substances and the work of skin breathing, both of utmost importance to health. Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. scientists have found that cigarette smoke not only accelerates the aging of the skin in areas that receive sunlight but also those who are hidden from the sun’s rays, a study published today in the journal Archives of Dermatology.

The investigation found that cigarette smoke was a factor that increased the skin lesions in areas like the inside top or bottom of the buttocks. Read the rest of this entry »

It caused a rash after exposure to light. It is rare, and usually appears in young adults. The initial symptom is pruritus, followed by hives located in the irradiated area to begin within minutes of exposure and persist for several hours and left without leaving residual lesions.

Diagnosis

The history is very important: age of onset, family history of photosensitivity, with seasonal symptoms, duration of exposure required, latency between exposure and onset of clinical description of the rash and its distribution, time of resolution if have minimal exposure, sunscreen use, drugs that are taken, local applications of cosmetic products, occupational exposure (welding arcs, lasers, UV lamps, industries, etc …) and others.

Treatment

* The best treatment is prevention, which in this case is to remain under cover, pointing out that UVA rays can penetrate the glass (generally do not filter out wavelengths> 320 nm) and that the clouds are not a protective factor solar. Exanthems by the Sun

* In addition, direct exposure to the sun at sunset is less dangerous than in the light of a cloudy afternoon. The white light of fluorescent lights can cause problems only in highly sensitive patients, depending on their proximity. Read the rest of this entry »

Diet, antioxidants, exercise and lifestyle account for 75% of external damage, while the remaining 25% would be attributable to genetic factors.

With the slogan “The skin, internal image,” kicked off the XXXIII National Congress of Dermatology and Venereology, which meets in Salamanca, Spain, a leading specialist until next Saturday.

Experts say that family heritage is no longer an excuse for aging skin. Other factors related to lifestyle seem to be more decisive in the appearance of wrinkles and other signs of skin damage, such as thickening of the skin, lack of elasticity, pigmentation disorders, and others.

Nor is concerned to combat wrinkles at any price, since “they are a consequence of life itself,” said the expert of Clinical Salamanca. These wrinkles can be dynamic or expression, or static. In the latter case, appear on the face due to loss of elastic fibers and decreased collagen that is going to manifest in the natural folds and areas photoexposed. Read the rest of this entry »